| ultimate_123 said:
You also have to spend a lot of time creating levels only for them to turn out to be roughly 2-5 minutes long. I mean whats the points in spending 2 hours if the level only turned out to be 2-5 minutes long? |
I don't really have any opinion of LBP, as I haven't really looked into it much, but please stop and think about this for a moment.
It takes months or years to create a 2 hour movie or 20-40 hour game. Authors spend months writing a novel that can be read in hours to days. I write music, and it certainly takes me longer than two hours to write a song that's five minutes long. I can spend days or weeks making something, refining and perfecting it.
I highly doubt this has anything to do with the game or the editors, it is more likely due the fact that anything worth playing/reading/watching/etc. takes time to make. The time required to make a level in LBP, according to your post, makes quite a bit of sense.
If you could throw together a level in a couple minutes, it would probably turn out bad. (look at the Smash Bros. level editor) It should actually be encouraging news to LBP fans that it takes a while to make a level, as that is a sign that the editor can probably actually be used to make good levels.
